[gentoo-user] /usr almost full

[gentoo-user] /usr almost full

[Allan Spagnol Comar]

Hello every one, it´s beeing a long time since my last post.

I am having a little problem with my /usr partition, I had a /usr
partition of 3.0GB in a production server that is almost full ( 500MB
remaining ) the portage distfiles is located on other disk (
/home/portage ) and I do not know what I can remove to save some disk,
can someone help ?

thanks, Allan

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Re: [gentoo-user] /usr almost full

[Hemmann, Volker Armin]

On Thursday 23 November 2006 16:36, Allan Spagnol Comar wrote:
> Hello every one, it´s beeing a long time since my last post.
>
> I am having a little problem with my /usr partition, I had a /usr
> partition of 3.0GB in a production server that is almost full ( 500MB
> remaining ) the portage distfiles is located on other disk (
> /home/portage ) and I do not know what I can remove to save some disk,
> can someone help ?
>

linux sources in /usr/src

unneeded man pages and stuff with localpurge

almost everything in /usr/share/doc

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Re: [gentoo-user] /usr almost full

[Allan Spagnol Comar]

thanks.

On 11/23/06, Hemmann, Volker Armin <volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> wrote:
> On Thursday 23 November 2006 16:36, Allan Spagnol Comar wrote:
> > Hello every one, it´s beeing a long time since my last post.
> >
> > I am having a little problem with my /usr partition, I had a /usr
> > partition of 3.0GB in a production server that is almost full ( 500MB
> > remaining ) the portage distfiles is located on other disk (
> > /home/portage ) and I do not know what I can remove to save some disk,
> > can someone help ?
> >
>
> linux sources in /usr/src
>
> unneeded man pages and stuff with localpurge
>
> almost everything in /usr/share/doc
>
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Re: [gentoo-user] /usr almost full

[Bira]

On 11/23/06, Hemmann, Volker Armin <volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> wrote:
>
> linux sources in /usr/src
>
> unneeded man pages and stuff with localpurge
>
> almost everything in /usr/share/doc

You can also delete stuff in /usr/portage/distfiles - this directory
is a cache of the source code portage downloads. If you don't mind
downloading some of them again the next time you update your system,
it's a nice way to clear some space.


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Re: [gentoo-user] /usr almost full

[Etaoin Shrdlu]

On Thursday 23 November 2006 19:07, Bira wrote:

> You can also delete stuff in /usr/portage/distfiles - this directory
> is a cache of the source code portage downloads. If you don't mind
> downloading some of them again the next time you update your system,
> it's a nice way to clear some space.

In this case no, he said that distfiles are on another partition.
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[gentoo-user] Re: /usr almost full

[James]

Allan Spagnol Comar <allan.comar <at> gmail.com> writes:


> I am having a little problem with my /usr partition, I had a /usr
> partition of 3.0GB in a production server that is almost full ( 500MB
> remaining ) the portage distfiles is located on other disk (
> /home/portage ) and I do not know what I can remove to save some disk,
> can someone help ?


Well  /usr/src contains kernels. get rid of all but the latest sources you
are using. 


Here's a little helper commnad to find large files that may or maynot be
discard eligible:

find ./ -size +100000  -exec ls -lag {} \; | less       <lists large files>


Here's another trick to find old files that may or maynot be discard eligile:

find ./ -mtime +180 -exec ls -lag {} \; | less


Depending on your setup, files in /usr/tmp may also be 'discard eligible.


hth,


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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: /usr almost full

[Allan Spagnol Comar]

Thank you again.
I tried the command for big files, but found none. the old file
command return basically portage index files. I solved for now the
problem cleaning and gziping my kernel source, moving doc folder to
home and making sinlinks.

Thank you all for the help. Allan

On 11/23/06, James <wireless@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
> Allan Spagnol Comar <allan.comar <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
>
> > I am having a little problem with my /usr partition, I had a /usr
> > partition of 3.0GB in a production server that is almost full ( 500MB
> > remaining ) the portage distfiles is located on other disk (
> > /home/portage ) and I do not know what I can remove to save some disk,
> > can someone help ?
>
>
> Well  /usr/src contains kernels. get rid of all but the latest sources you
> are using.
>
>
> Here's a little helper commnad to find large files that may or maynot be
> discard eligible:
>
> find ./ -size +100000  -exec ls -lag {} \; | less       <lists large files>
>
>
> Here's another trick to find old files that may or maynot be discard eligile:
>
> find ./ -mtime +180 -exec ls -lag {} \; | less
>
>
> Depending on your setup, files in /usr/tmp may also be 'discard eligible.
>
>
> hth,
>
>
> James
>
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[gentoo-user] Re: /usr almost full

[reader]

"Allan Spagnol Comar" <allan.comar@gmail.com> writes:

> Hello every one, it´s beeing a long time since my last post.
>
> I am having a little problem with my /usr partition, I had a /usr
> partition of 3.0GB in a production server that is almost full ( 500MB
> remaining ) the portage distfiles is located on other disk (
> /home/portage ) and I do not know what I can remove to save some disk,
> can someone help ?

mv /usr/share /usr/lib and /usr/local (if you have much on it) to
different partitions and symlink to /usr

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Re: [gentoo-user] /usr almost full

[Dirk Heinrichs]

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Am Donnerstag, 23. November 2006 16:36 schrieb ext Allan Spagnol Comar:

> I am having a little problem with my /usr partition, I had a /usr
> partition of 3.0GB in a production server that is almost full ( 500MB
> remaining ) the portage distfiles is located on other disk (
> /home/portage ) and I do not know what I can remove to save some disk,
> can someone help ?

Other's have already told you what you can delete. I'd like to make a 
different proposal.

If you could create another partition, you could install EVMS and link the 
new partition to your /usr partition, using EVMS's drive-link plugin, then 
grow the filesystem to occupy the new space.

For future installations you should consider using some kind of logical 
volume manager like LVM or EVMS from the beginning, together with an 
online-resizable filesystem.

HTH...

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Re: [gentoo-user] /usr almost full

[Mick]

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On Friday 24 November 2006 06:43, Dirk Heinrichs wrote:

> Other's have already told you what you can delete. I'd like to make a
> different proposal.
>
> If you could create another partition, you could install EVMS and link the
> new partition to your /usr partition, using EVMS's drive-link plugin, then
> grow the filesystem to occupy the new space.
>
> For future installations you should consider using some kind of logical
> volume manager like LVM or EVMS from the beginning, together with an
> online-resizable filesystem.

In the event that the OS get borked, is it possible to boot using a LiveCD 
(e.g. Knoppix) to recover the fs and data, like one can with the good ol' 
primary & logical partitions?

Or, is there a need for access to software exotica and configuration files on 
the borked OS?

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Re: [gentoo-user] /usr almost full

[Alan McKinnon]

On Friday 24 November 2006 11:43, Mick wrote:
> On Friday 24 November 2006 06:43, Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
> > Other's have already told you what you can delete. I'd like to make
> > a different proposal.
> >
> > If you could create another partition, you could install EVMS and
> > link the new partition to your /usr partition, using EVMS's
> > drive-link plugin, then grow the filesystem to occupy the new
> > space.
> >
> > For future installations you should consider using some kind of
> > logical volume manager like LVM or EVMS from the beginning,
> > together with an online-resizable filesystem.
>
> In the event that the OS get borked, is it possible to boot using a
> LiveCD (e.g. Knoppix) to recover the fs and data, like one can with
> the good ol' primary & logical partitions?
>
> Or, is there a need for access to software exotica and configuration
> files on the borked OS?

For LVM you only need an initrd on the LiveCD with LVM support. It then 
looks at the various disks, finds the pvs and then lvs then become 
available.

Dunno about EVMS as I have no experience with that

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Re: [gentoo-user] /usr almost full

[Dirk Heinrichs]

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Am Freitag, 24. November 2006 10:43 schrieb ext Mick:

> > For future installations you should consider using some kind of logical
> > volume manager like LVM or EVMS from the beginning, together with an
> > online-resizable filesystem.
>
> In the event that the OS get borked, is it possible to boot using a
> LiveCD (e.g. Knoppix) to recover the fs and data, like one can with the
> good ol' primary & logical partitions?

All the LiveCD needs is LVM or EVMS, which is the case for Gentoo CD's, 
don't know about Knoppix.

> Or, is there a need for access to software exotica and configuration
> files on the borked OS?

No.

Bye...

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Re: [gentoo-user] /usr almost full

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Fri, 24 Nov 2006 09:43:22 +0000, Mick wrote:

> In the event that the OS get borked, is it possible to boot using a
> LiveCD (e.g. Knoppix) to recover the fs and data, like one can with the
> good ol' primary & logical partitions?

Not with Knoppix, you need a live CD with LVM support. The Gentoo Live
CDs should have it.


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Re: [gentoo-user] /usr almost full

[Dirk Heinrichs]

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Am Freitag, 24. November 2006 11:08 schrieb ext Neil Bothwick:
> On Fri, 24 Nov 2006 09:43:22 +0000, Mick wrote:
> > In the event that the OS get borked, is it possible to boot using a
> > LiveCD (e.g. Knoppix) to recover the fs and data, like one can with the
> > good ol' primary & logical partitions?
>
> Not with Knoppix, you need a live CD with LVM support. The Gentoo Live
> CDs should have it.

Knoppix has LVM, but not EVMS. Gentoo has both.

Bye...

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Re: [gentoo-user] /usr almost full

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Fri, 24 Nov 2006 11:35:24 +0100, Dirk Heinrichs wrote:

> > Not with Knoppix, you need a live CD with LVM support. The Gentoo Live
> > CDs should have it.  
> 
> Knoppix has LVM, but not EVMS. Gentoo has both.

That must be quite new, the last time I looked Knoppix had neither. Thanks
for the update.


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Re: [gentoo-user] /usr almost full

[Dirk Heinrichs]

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Am Freitag, 24. November 2006 11:48 schrieb ext Neil Bothwick:
> On Fri, 24 Nov 2006 11:35:24 +0100, Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
> > > Not with Knoppix, you need a live CD with LVM support. The Gentoo
> > > Live CDs should have it.
> >
> > Knoppix has LVM, but not EVMS. Gentoo has both.
>
> That must be quite new, the last time I looked Knoppix had neither.
> Thanks for the update.

I just looked into packages.txt on a Knoppix mirror, not on an real CD. 
Hopefully, they are in sync :-)

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[gentoo-user] Re: /usr almost full

[Alexander Skwar]

Dirk Heinrichs <ext-dirk.heinrichs@nokia.com>:

> Am Freitag, 24. November 2006 11:08 schrieb ext Neil Bothwick:
>> On Fri, 24 Nov 2006 09:43:22 +0000, Mick wrote:
>> > In the event that the OS get borked, is it possible to boot using a
>> > LiveCD (e.g. Knoppix) to recover the fs and data, like one can with the
>> > good ol' primary & logical partitions?
>>
>> Not with Knoppix, you need a live CD with LVM support. The Gentoo Live
>> CDs should have it.
> 
> Knoppix has LVM, but not EVMS. Gentoo has both.

For recovery stuff, I prefer grml, though. Text based, loads faster
and has more recovery things.

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